Southern Sudanese should focus on building stronger socio-economic relations with neighboring regions, should they opt for secession in Sunday’s self-determination referendum, Thabo Mbeki, the ex-South African leader said Friday.
Mbeki, who heads the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on Sudan (AUHIP) made these remarks while giving a 30-minute lecture on, “Southern Sudan on the eve of self-determination,” held at Juba University.
The referendum, he said, provides a unique opportunity for the population of the semi-autonomous region to not only ...

Today it’s part of South African political lore, although back then its main effect was to offend Rainbow Nation sensibilities. Delivered in 1998, Thabo Mbeki’s “two nations” speech now has real relevance for America. A lead feature in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine suggests why. By KEVIN BLOOM.
At the opening of the debate on “reconciliation and nation building” in the national assembly in May 1998, Thabo Mbeki, then South Africa’s deputy president, made a series of statements that were carefully designed to shatter the ...

The high-level African Union Panel on Darfur (AUPD) which arrived last week in Sudan conducts a series of public hearings across Darfur to examine the root causes of the conflict in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.Led by the former South Africa president, Thabo Mbeki, the panel aims to determine how best to quickly end the conflict and expedite the peace process to create conditions conducive to promote justice, healing, and reconciliation. The panel kicked off the hearings on 20 June in El-Fasher, capital of North Darfur, before moving to the South Darfur capital of Nyala on Sunday, ...